[Buddha-l] Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion

[Jim Peavler]

Has someone on Buddha-l read David Lewis-Williams' new book "Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion"? Lewis-Williams is an anthropologist who specialises in cave and rock art (in particular from South Africa). He has written two brilliant and highly-recommended popular books on prehistoric cave art, the "Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art", and "Inside the Neolithic Mind".

Here is a review by A C Grayling (http://acgrayling.com/) that is available at http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/04/religion-religious-lewis. I think the book by Lewis-Williams sounds very interesting.






Jim Peavler
jmp at peavler.org